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The story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unsuitable match , is supported in a lively manner : POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
The story of JANUARY and MAY now before us , is of the comic kind , and the character of a fond old dotard betrayed into disgrace by an unsuitable match , is supported in a lively manner : POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize ...
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... have undergone the usual and unavoidable face of satirica ! writings , that is , not to be tasted or understood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they stigmatize , are perished and * See Menagiana , Vol . I. p .
... have undergone the usual and unavoidable face of satirica ! writings , that is , not to be tasted or understood , when the characters , the facts and the follies they stigmatize , are perished and * See Menagiana , Vol . I. p .
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... and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat• The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had ng other consequence , than to make his laurels to be seen the more .
... and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat• The falling off of his hair , faid a man of wit , had ng other consequence , than to make his laurels to be seen the more .
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But it is not unusual for the same person to succeed in defcribing externally a diftressful character , who may miferably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of such a character . In a word , so much more difficult is DRAMATIC ...
But it is not unusual for the same person to succeed in defcribing externally a diftressful character , who may miferably fail in putting proper words in the mouth of such a character . In a word , so much more difficult is DRAMATIC ...
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The first of these Imitations is of Chauçer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
The first of these Imitations is of Chauçer ; as it paints neither characters nor manners like his original , as it is the only piece of our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 30 Mar 2018 |
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